Briefing

'They were asking for their voices to be heard. The results speak for themselves.'

WENDY DAVIS, Texas state senator, after staging an 11-hour filibuster of a bill restricting abortions, on the raucous crowd in the state capitol, whose chanting helped time expire before Republicans could pass the measure

'The price of a farm bill should not be making more people Hungry in America.'

JIM MCGOVERN, Democratic Representative from Massachusetts, as Congress failed to pass a farm bill, throwing into question financing of the nation's farm and food-stamp programs